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Northern Ireland: PSNI must end work with Israeli police and security services

‘Northern Ireland, and particularly our police service, must ensure it is not implicated in Israel’s human rights violations’ - Patrick Corrigan The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) should...

Belarus: Students expelled, charged and jailed for opposing Lukashenka - New Report

Hundreds of students punished for protesting against last year’s contested presidential election Report comes as journalist Roman Protasevich’s Ryanair flight forced to make emergency landing in Minsk...

Belarus: journalist must be released after 'chilling' forced landing of Ryanair flight

Prominent blogger Roman Protasevich was on a flight from Athens to Vilnius Ryanair plane forced to land after ‘bomb’ scare, with MiG-29 fighter jet intervening ‘This apparent act of air piracy is...

USA: Biden's newly-signed hate crimes legislation is 'major step forward'

COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act promises accountability for violence against Asian and other communities of colour ‘The US must confront and uproot the systems of white supremacy’ - Joanne Lin Responding to...

USA/Colombia: fresh evidence of US weapons being used against protesters

Two types of US-made grenade launchers used by Colombian security forces Four weeks of protests have been met by police violence, with dozens of deaths ‘The United States role in fueling ceaseless...

Global Health Summit: G20 Leaders must push pharma companies to share life-saving technology

Draft ‘Rome Declaration’ to be agreed at summit includes no mention of waiving vaccine patents Under current plans, less developed countries will not receive enough doses to achieve widespread...

Switzerland: Violence and racism in asylum centres run by private security companies - new report

New report includes disturbing testimony, with guards themselves shocked at orders they received Some asylum-seekers, including children, put in freezing-cold steel containers - or ‘reflection rooms’...

Spain/Morocco: migrants subjected to violence and used as 'pawns' at Ceuta border

Children beaten by Spanish guards after border gates thrown open Stand-off appears to be Morocco’s ‘retaliation’ for separatist leader’s medical treatment in Spain ‘Spanish abuses are also EU abuses’...

Belarus: Leading news site blocked and journalists interrogated

TUT.by, relied on by more than 40% of Belarusian internet users, taken down and editors interrogated after office and house raids Move follows jailing of TUT.by reporter in March ‘It is a full-scale...

Russia: proposed new laws will criminalise Navalny supporters

Up to 200,000 Navalny supporters could fall foul of new laws Parliamentarians urged to reject bills threatening freedom of association and expression ‘Having unjustly imprisoned its arch foe, the...